CELEBRATING THE 2024/25 NOMINEES OF APL PREMIO VIENNA ARTISTS – THE ITALIAN PERFORMANCE ART AWARD
WELCOMING GAIA GINEVRA GIORGI AND FRANCESCO CORSI
23.01.2025
Georg-Coch-Platz 2, A-1010 Vienna, Mezzanine floor, APL Studio, 18:30 – 21:30
The Angewandte Performance Laboratory (APL) and the Italian Cultural Institute in Vienna extend an invitation to an event celebrating the winners of the PREMIO VIENNA – PERFORMANCE ART AWARD. The evening will feature Gaia Ginevra Giorgi and Francesco Corsi. Premio Vienna is a collaborative project between the Italian Ministry of Culture, the Italian Cultural Institute in Vienna, and the University of Applied Arts Vienna to foster exchange between Italy and Austria within the European performance art scene. During the course of the event, Gaia and Francesco will introduce themselves and their artistic works to a broader audience.
Gaia Ginevra Giorgi is inviting us to a listening session to encounter her artistic practice of writing, sound composition and performance, which oscillates between autobiography, archaeology and imagination. During her residency in Vienna, Gaia will engage with vocal archives, investigating psychoacoustic and mediumistic phenomena. Through techniques of embodiment and self-induced trance states, she will explore glossolalia and otherworldly voices vocally and corporeally.
Francesco Corsi, who works between choreography, performance and visual art, will introduce his new research, inspired by Adriana Cavarero’s Critique of Rectitude. During his residency in Vienna, he will compose a cartography of postures, focusing on its ethical inscriptions on the flesh, departing from the deconstruction of a vertical body and its claim to an autonomous subjectivity – incarnated in the figure of the soldier.
Barbis Ruder greift in ihrer Performance die Klänge der Mundstücke auf und verknüpft sie mit verschiedenen Körpertechniken. Es entsteht ein gestisches Ballett der Kraft, das von einer Art Nicht-Ton, einem Seufzen des Materials und stillem Schmerz geprägt ist.
Vor der Performance wird Felicitas Thun-Hohenstein (Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien) im Gespräch mit Barbis Ruder eine inhaltliche Einführung geben.
Hinweis keine Anmeldung erforderlich Dauer ca. 30-45 Minuten (inkl. Gespräch) Kosten Gratis Treffp
Inauguration and Artist Talk of APL PREMIO VIENNA Artists 2024
Date: 23.01. 2025
Where: Georg-Coch-Platz 2, APL Studio, 18:30 – 21:30
We extend a warm welcome to Gaia Ginevra Giorgi and Francesco Corsi, who have been selected as Premio Vienna artists at the APL!
The residency programme for young Italian artists working in the field of performance art will be conducted as a collaboration between the Italian Ministry of Culture (MiC) – Directorate General for Contemporary Creativity, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MAECI), the Italian Cultural Institute in Vienna (IIC), the University of Applied Arts Vienna / Applied Performance Laboratory (APL) and Bears in the Park from November 2024 to May 2025.
Gaia Ginevra Giorgi and Francesco Corsi were selected by a commission and awarded a six-month residency in Vienna, during which they will engage in professional research in the field of performance art. They will participate in activities organised by the Italian Cultural Institute in Vienna and the APL. The APL’s programme will comprise training sessions, in-depth discussions about the APL’s artistic research projects, coaching sessions, and events with artists from Vienna and around the world. Moreover, the fellows will be afforded the chance to present their theoretical research findings and practice to the public, either during or at the conclusion of their tenure in Vienna.
Meet Premio Vienna fellow: Gaia Ginevra Giorgi
Gaia Ginevra Giorgi is an artist and researcher working within the field of performing arts. Her practice integrates writing, sound, voice, and performative devices. Drawing from a feminist, ecological, and situated approach, she develops investigative methodologies aimed at an affective and political rewriting of archives and landscapes, understood as territories of manipulation and power, but also as potential tools for counter-narration. Her interventions—whether performances, installations, or workshop-based projects—create ephemeral habitats, spaces for embodied and radical imagination.
Her current research explores hauntological practices through sonic, vocal, and performative lenses, focusing on their political potential to shape and generate alternative futures. She examines the relationships between archival documents, immaterial traces, ghosts, and heritage. During her residency in Vienna, she engages with a vocal archive, investigating psychoacoustic phenomena. Through techniques of embodiment and the exploration of self-induced trance states, she is dedicated to the vocal and corporeal exploration of glossolalia and otherworldly voices.
Meet Premio Vienna fellow: Francesco Corsi
Francesco Corsi works between choreography, performance, and visual arts. His research is an exploration of the body as a social/material/semiotic compost in its meeting with the world. His work has been shown in different formats in Venere in Teatro Festival (Venice), Peggy Guggenheim Collection (Venice), Base (Milan), WpZimmer (Antwerp), and Zürcher Theatre Spektakel (Zürich). He has collaborated in various configurations with Michele Rizzo, Daniele Ninarello, Traslochi Emotivi, and Pankaj Tiwari.
With this new research, inspired by Adriana Cavarero’s Critique of Rectitude, I will research and compose a cartography of postures, focusing on its ethical inscriptions on the flesh: from the deconstruction of a vertical body and its claim to an autonomous subjectivity—incarnated in the figure of the soldier—to the affirmation of the hor(n)izontal body, through the inclined body and who knows what else. Working on movement readymades, military drills, choreographic collages, and weird physicalities, I am looking for figures, spectres, states, and incarnations that will compose a choreographic map/archive of postural geometries.
Symposium
Sa, 07.12.2024, 11:30 – 12 Uhr
Vorstellung & Impuls: Angewandte Performance Lab (Mariella Greil-Möbius, Peter Kozek & Charlotta Ruth)
Performance besides Itself. Infra- and Parastructures of a Contemporary Liveness @ Kunstraum Niederösterreich
Das Symposium Performance Besides Itself. Infra- and Parastructures of a Contemporary Liveness widmet sich den Dynamiken zwischen Performance und institutionell-infrastrukturellen Kontexten. Wie verhalten sich Performance und Institution zueinander? Wie bedingt das Institutionelle die Möglichkeiten von Performance und inwiefern könnten performative Praktiken die Arbeitsweise und die Infrastrukturen von Kunstinstitutionen langfristig verändern?
Symposium: Fr, 06.12. – Sa, 07.12.2024
For more information click here: https://www.kunstraum.net/de/termine/performance-besides-itself-infra-and-parastructures-of-a-contemporary-liveness/3470
Graziata.
On Saturday 23rd and Sunday 24th of November 2024 (20:00-21:00) FEM (Francesca Centonze, Markela Koniordou and Els Van Houtert) hosted a one-hour long ritual-performance which sprouted from a 3-week residency at Seestadt Studios with the support of Donaustadt.Kultur – the district of Donaustadt of Vienna (district cultural funding, MA7). Over the course of the residency FEM critically explored Italy’s Puglia traditions of Tarantism, delving into the emotional states and behaviors that women are ‘not supposed to’ show in public: anger, fear, sensuality, joy. The Tarantata is the woman whose family, church, and community declare poisoned by a bite of a tarantula spider, appearing to suffer from “hysterical-convulsive symptoms”. To get rid of the poison and to regain her “sanity,” she must dance, dance, and dance again until she has sweated all the poison out from her body. But what if the poison were on our side?
Creative team: Francesca Centonze, Markela Koniordou and Els Van Houtert (concept creation, performance), Charlotte Bastam and Luigi Guerrieri (external eye), Lisa Maresch (costume, set design), Bian Lawlor, James Freeman and Markela Koniordou (music), Sabrina Rosina (production)
Supported by Donaustadt Kultur.
FuelNoises is an audiovisual concert, a digital drama played by two partners: a human and an AI.
In the flood of fake news, the protagonist struggles with the complexity of the information age and falls into the collective inertia in the face of the climate crisis. In the age of artificial intelligence, the internet has turned into a turbulent sea of misinformation. This misinformation is not only created and fueled by human desire for simple answers, but also amplified and tailored by AI algorithms. The anti-hero sinks into the noise of this sea, simultaneously empowered and deceived by his smart devices. From doom- scrolling and frustration, the flood of fake news leads the protagonist on a perilous journey of radicalization.
The combination of body, interactive sounds and images creates an electrifying spectacle that stimulates the senses. The visuals and soundscape of “FuelNoises” is sourced from the real-world battlefield of climate change misinformation.
Media artist Stefano D’Alessio delved into the depths of social media, collecting misleading posts, videos, images and texts. During the performance, sound and images dynamically respond to the performer’s movements. The audience is encouraged to recognize the human element in this chaotic landscape, where we are both architects and victims of our own misinformation.
By and with: Stefano D’Alessio
Costume Design: Agnes Varnai
Visual Design: Enrico Zago, Stefano D’Alessio
Stage Design: Max Windisch-Spoerk
Lights: Max Windisch-Spoerk, Stefano D’Alessio
Outside Eyes: Ariadne Randall, Jolyane Langlois, Luigi Guerrieri, Klaus Obermaier
Producer: Sophie Menzinger
PR: Alina Groer (Sky Unlimited)
Video and Photo documentation: Francesca Centonze,
Photo Documentation: Verena Tscherner
The performance is based on research on the web installation FuelNoise, published in 2023.
FuelNoises is realized in cooperation with Theater am Werk. With the kind support of the Cultural Department of the City of Vienna, the Federal Ministry of Art, Culture, Public Service and Sport Austria, Bears in the Park, Symposium Lindabrunn and Angewandte Performance Lab.
APL in Summer Semester 2024
Researcher Exchange Tuesday 28/5 17.00
Join the APL Morning Practices - still in the evening every Wednesday 17.00-18.30
Carolina Cappelli is an Italian performer, filmmaker and artistic gymnastic teacher. Her research is trans-disciplinary and involves the hybridization between writing and performative and cinematic practices. Strongly related to re-enactment as a primary tool of investigation, she often works with pre-existing material as a starting point for generating alternative narratives and researching the image of the catastrophe and the catastrophe of the image.
Heads up☝️ Following Costas practice on the 22.05 17.00-18.30 the evening will extend into #APLpresence. No matter if straight after practice or fresh out of something else, join us for some tea and cosy vibes 19.00-20.00
Costas Kekis began dancing in Athens as a kid in his family’s living room before engaging with dance professionally. He has performed for Sara Lanner, Doris Uhlich, Oleg Soulimenko & Fanni Futterknecht and shown his work or collaborations in Croatia, Spain, Norway, Switzerland, France, Germany & Austria. He also worked as a dramaturg with Magdalena Chowaniec, Fanni Futterknecht, Lau Lukkarila, Beatrix Simkó, Asher O‘ Gorman, Katerina Andreou among others. In 2021 and 2022 he coordinated artistically the Life Long Burning Programme ‚Performance Situation Room‘ in the frame of Impulstanz.
WEB: www.costaskekis.com
https://brut-wien.at/en/Programme/Calendar/Programm-2023/11/Costas-Kekis
Performance by Premio Vienna Artist Carolina Cappelli on 13.05.2024
Filmscreening - Lichthöhe (2022) & Strata (2024)
APL Studio, 15th March, 2024
FILM SCREENING & Q&A
19:15 – 19:45 LICHTHÖHE
20:00 – 21:15 STRATA
LICHTHÖHE, FILM, 30 min, 2022
Peter Kozek & Thomas Hörl
together with Victor Jaschke
Photo credit: LICHTHÖHE, Peter Kozek & Thomas Hörl together with Victor Jaschke, filmstill, 2022
LICHTHÖHE explores the layers of an architectural-tectonic structure in which the history of the earth and the history of mankind, awe and consumption, tradition and a state of emergency overlap. In the summer of 2020, while the High Alpine Road is in operation, images will be created that reference the symbolic repertoire of the entire Alpine region. At the same time, a film crew captures the event in digital image sequences and shifts the perspective on what is seen: are the crisp, clear clouds in the sky the result of elaborate night filming technology or merely telltale signs of an old film trick, American Night?
(Excerpt from a text by Florian Ronc)
http://kozek-hoerlonski.com/projects/lichthohe/
STRATA, Film, 75 minutes, English with SDH subtitles in English, 2024
VestAndPage
Photo credit: STRATA, Vestand Page, filmstill: daz disley, 2024
A film of philosophical, poetic action, “STRATA” blends film and performance art to explore the fascinating history of caves as sites of knowledge-making and art creation. Through interdisciplinary processes, artists and researchers investigate the connection between the human body and the geological depth of subsurface environments. The project focuses on the prehistoric caves of the Swabian Jura, where Ice Age humans created the oldest known examples of human figurative sculptures. Coming together to look into the river of human civilisation and to share what they had found, the collective of artists irradiate concepts of time, ecological intelligence and politics through performances for the camera. The film pinholes a perspective on a world where art, science and multiple perspectives nourish each other in co-creative processes. Nestled inside the dark subsurfaces of the land, the human body and stratified societies are tied in continuity to the geological, beheld through a lens of queer ecology. The caves are the symbiotic realms to dance between embodiment and scrutiny, the unseen and the unforeseen, the oppressed and unspoken, the forgotten and the repressed. www.stratafilm.de
Verena Stenke and Andrea Pagnes work together as VestAndPage internationally in performance art, performance-based film, writing, publishing and temporary artistic community projects for generative inquiry and collective imaginings. For over a decade, VestAndPage have explored performance art and filmmaking as phenomena through their collaborative multimedia art practice, artistic research and curatorial projects. They have produced performance-based art and films, among others, under Antarctic glaciers, at the Himalayan foothills, in the vastness of Tierra del Fuego, in military enclaves, or inside prehistoric cave systems. In a psychogeography of symbiotic realms, they move between embodiment and research, the unseen and the unforeseen, the oppressed and unspoken, the forgotten and the repressed. Their art practice is contextual and focuses on art’s liminal, spectral and ritual nature. Their works have been presented at various sites, museums, galleries, theatres, and cinemas worldwide, and they share their methodology on collaborative performance and filmmaking in master classes and as lecturers at various art academies. They are the founders and directors of the Venice International Performance Art Week, and their research and poetic writings have been extensively published and translated for international readers. www.vest-and-page.de
A VestAndPage production, Germany, 2021/24
Conceived, written, directed and produced by VestAndPage (Verena Stenke, Andrea Pagnes)
With Aldo Aliprandi, Marianna Andrigo, Andreas Bauer Kanabas, Anguezomo Mba Bikoro, Giorgia De Santi, Francesca Fini, Nicola Fornoni, La Saula, Stephan Knies, Fenia Kotsopoulou, Boris Nieslony, Andrea Pagnes, Ralf Peters, Enok Ripley, Sara Simeoni, Marcel Sparmann, Verena Stenke, Susanne Weins. Music by PYUR and Woob.
Supported by Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the German Federal Government Commissioner of Culture and the Media.
Realized in collaboration with the Museum of Prehistory in Blaubeuren, Museum Ulm, Cojote Outdoor, EntrAxis e.V., A.P.S. Studio Contemporaneo, Live Arts Cultures.
With the support of UNESCO World Heritage: Caves and Ice Age Art of the Swabian Alb, State Office for Cultural Heritage of Baden-Wuerttemberg, ForstBW, Blauwald GmbH & Co KG, Stadt Blaubeuren, City of Schelklingen, City of Grabenstetten, City of Asselfingen, Museum association Schelklingen, Urgeschichte Hautnah, Tress Gastronomie/Wimsener cave. Thanks to to the University of Exeter Research Network “Rock/Body: Performative Interfaces between the geologic and the body”, especially Nigel Clarke, João Florêncio and Timothy Morton.
Bare Bodies – ganz ohr/all ears – Questionology
24 January 17.00
APL studio, Georg-Coch-Platz 2
Reading from three books in a Circle (test, test)
With Mariella Greil, Ricarda Denzer, Cordula Daus & Charlotta Ruth
APL cordially invite you to a collateral reading from recent APL related publications:
An anthology, an artist book and an exercise book, three exquisite printed matters which will be presented by the writers/editors themselves with collegial admiration. Attention: By means of a score (scroll down), we will not only activate our own publication – we’re proposing a first model for a Reading/Listening Circle.
Hope to see you there!
1. Make some space and time for the book in question.
2. Read attentively. Read inattentively.
3. Find a passage that connects to you/your book.
4. Note down where it takes you (page, place, other).
5. Let’s call this a wormhole.*
6. Make space for a yet unknown reader on your right side.
7. Read through the holes.
* Who are we to explain you what a wormhole is! As no matter of fact, a wormhole is a hypothetical structure connecting disparate points in spacetime. While wormholes are consistent with the general theory of relativity, it remains to be proven how they operate between books and readers.
APL Morning Practice - in the Evening;-)
Back in the Summer Semester!
ARTIST TALK(ING) Carolina Capelli & Marco-Augusto Basso 12.01.2024 Georg-Coch-Platz 2, APL Studio, 18:00 - 21:00
Join us for poetic imagery, alternative narratives, wine and some taralli!
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Good News, night strollers – no more suffering – only joy! Join the APL Morning Practices – now in the evening every Wednesday from MARCH 2024 17.00-18.30;-)
ABOUT: Claire is a femme choreographer, insomniac writer, and reality TV enthusiast currently based in Vienna, Austria. She likes to think of herself as a hostess, welcoming collaborators and audience members into kitsch landscapes where politics and poetics are gently interwoven.
WEB: www.clairelefevre.com @clairelefevre.heartemoji
APL & opens the door at Rennweg Studios every evening 11-16 December. Hope to see you at Rennweg 79-81, 1030 Vienna. Come as you are – leave with ideas, warmth, and new concerns! HOW WE OUGHT TO BE TOGETHER Info & Programme
The Angewandte Performance Lab is thrilled to introduce its inaugural BANDO PREMIO VIENNA Stipends.
We are proud to collaborate with The Ministry of Culture (MiC) – Directorate General for Contemporary Creativity, The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MAECI) – Directorate General for Public and Cultural Diplomacy, and the Italian Cultural Institute in Vienna (IIC) on the inaugural edition of the “Premio Vienna.” This residency program is designed for young Italian artists in the field of performance art and is conducted in partnership with the University of Applied Arts Vienna and the Angewandte Performance Laboratory (APL).
Also, feel invited to scroll down checking current recommended calls!
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